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Essays On, I. Moral Sentiments; II. Astronomical Inquiries III. Formation of Languages IV. History of Ancient Physics V. Ancient Logic and Metaphysicis VI. the Imitative Arts VII. Music, Dancing, Poetry VIII. the External Senses IX. English and Ita

Essays On, I. Moral Sentiments; II. Astronomical Inquiries III. Formation of Languages IV. History of Ancient Physics V. Ancient Logic and Metaphysicis VI. the Imitative Arts VII. Music, Dancing, Poetry VIII. the External Senses IX. English and Ita


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 26 IN MEDIOCRITY CONSISTS THE POINT OF PROPRIETY. much nearer to perfection than the greater part of those works which can be brought into competition with it. Sec. II.?Of The Degrees Of The Different Passions Which Are Consistent With Propriety. Introduction.?The propriety of every passion excited by objects peculiarly related to ourselves, the pitch which the spectator can go along with, must lie, it is evident, in a certain mediocrity. If the passion is too high, or if it is too low, he cannot enter into it . Grief and resentment for private misfortunes and injuries may easily, for example, be too high, and in the greater part of mankind they are so. They may likewise, though this more rarely happens, be too low. We denominate the excess weakness and fury: and we call the defect stupidity, insensibility, and want of spirit. We can enter into neither of them, but are astonished and confounded to see them. This mediocrity, however, in which the point of propriety consists, is different in different passions. It is high in some, and low in others. There are some passions which it is indecent to express very strongly, even upon those occasions, in which it is acknowledged that we cannot avoid feeling them in the highest degree. And there are others of which the strongest expressions are upon many occasions extremely graceful, even though the passions themselves do not, perhaps, arise so necessarily. The first are those passions with which, for certain reasons, there is little or no sympathy: the second are those with which, for other reasons, there is the greatest. And if we consider all the different passions of human nature, we shall find that they are regarded as decent, or indecent, just in proportion as mankind are more or less disposed to sympathize with them. ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217209830
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 228
  • Spine Width: 12 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217209831
  • Publisher Date: 04 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 413 gr


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